Libambulators Unite! Walking + Reading to Save A City

by Lee Klein

A short tract in favor of the sociopolitically crucial act of simultaneous walking and reading.

ebook

First published April 1, 2011

About the author

Lee Klein is the author of Like It Matters, Chaotic Good, Neutral Evil ))), JRZDVLZ, The Shimmering Go-Between, Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck: Rejection Letters from the Eyeshot Outbox, and Incidents of Egotourism in the Temporary World. His translation of Horacio Castellanos Moya's Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador received a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Award and was recognized by the New Yorker's James Wood as one of four favorites of 2016. From 1999 to 2014 he edited Eyeshot.net, one of the first weird little lit sites, and in May 2007 he started using Goodreads. He lives in the Philadelphia area with his daughter and wife.

Reviews

[Lee Klein · Rating 4 out of 5]

Once and for all: libambulation is not at all dangerous! Jeez oh man.

[M. Sarki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Glad to read a rather longish piece that makes not only good sense but an excellent argument structured to save our lives. My only complaint being it felt too clean.